{"id":2432,"date":"2007-07-25T00:52:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/wordcamp-2007-lessons-learnt-and-wordpress-updates\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T06:51:34","slug":"wordcamp-2007-lessons-learnt-and-wordpress-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/wordcamp-2007-lessons-learnt-and-wordpress-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Lessons from WordPress WordCamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordCamp, a 2-day WordPress conference for users and developers<\/strong> in San Francisco is over. Attendees returned as better bloggers and the development and future of WordPress were highlighted. With a line up of top technology experts and blogging gurus, it was bound to be a success. I learned some useful lessons…<\/p>\n

WordCamp schedule was impressive, with the first day focusing primarily on user topics and the second day primarily on developer topics. Moreover, every single speaker was a WordPress user.<\/p>\n

WordCamp\u00a0 Day 1<\/h3>\n

Blogging Pro has a round-up of events at Wordcamp Day 1 and says that Matt Cutts, the famous Google search guy suggested some valuable pearls of wisdom (and I have a comment on each)<\/p>\n

1. Don’t put your blog at the root of your domain.<\/strong>
\nSee how I hosted WordPress in an alternate directory<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Name your directory ‘blog’ instead of ‘wordpress’.<\/strong>
\nSounds more professional. I use “archives”.<\/p>\n

3. In URLs, no spaces are worst, underscore are better, dashes or hyphens are best.<\/strong>
\nLatest reports suggest that Google is willing to treat underscores equal to hyphens<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Use alt tags on images: not only is it good accessibility, it’s good SEO.<\/strong>
\nNo doubt about that. Use Google Image Search for more traffic.<\/p>\n

5. Include keywords naturally in your posts.<\/strong>
\nKeyword stuffing has a negative impact on SEO. Read the most important Search Engine Ranking Factors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6. Make your post dates easy to find.<\/strong>
\nIt is essential to convey that your particular news articles a year old. Do you want people spreading it as breaking news on Digg?<\/p>\n

7. Check your blog on a cell phone and\/or iPhone.<\/strong>
\nCross-browser compatibility is essential. Does your site work on Safari?<\/p>\n

8. Use partial-text feeds if you want more page views; use full-text feeds if you want more loyal readers.<\/strong>
\nThe debate is never-ending. I got 12000 feed readers with partial feeds. Headlines are getting more important.<\/p>\n

9. Blogs should do standard pings.<\/strong>
\nMany single click multi-blog pinging tools<\/a> are available.<\/p>\n

10. Standardize backlinks (don’t mix and match www with non-www).<\/strong>
\nModify .htaccess to tweak this issue. Set your preferred canonical domain<\/a> in Google Sitemaps.<\/p>\n

11. Use a permanent redirect (301) when moving to a new host.<\/strong>
\nThe safest SEO friendly way to redirect. This was an issue of concern<\/a> when I moved from Blogger to WordPress, as Blogger did not allow this redirect.<\/p>\n

12. Don’t include the post date in your URL.<\/strong>
\nUseful for Evergreen articles. But then Google news might not index you as the URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits<\/a> (the year and month in my permalink fulfil the technical requirement).<\/p>\n

13. When moving between hosts, wait until Googlebot and traffic begin to visit the new host before taking down the old one.<\/strong>
\nValuable advice. But duplicate articles are a concern. Blogger to WordPress<\/a> was a big task, but we turned out fine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

14. If using AdSense, use sectioning.<\/strong>
\nContextually targeted ads pay better if ads are relevant. Tell the Googlebot which content is ad relevant. Use section targeting.<\/p>\n

15. Use Feed Burner’s (now) free MyBrand feature to take control of your feeds.<\/strong>
\nTake control of your feeds. Google buys Feedburner and MyBrand goes free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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